What the New York Times would have you believe:

From their editorial endorsing Hillary Clinton for the Democratic primary: (emp add)

• Hillary Clinton is "brilliant"
• John Edwards can not hold back the tide of globalization
• The idea of the first woman nominee is "exhilarating" [How "exhilarating" is it that we have the first black woman as Secretary of State?]
• The Times is "hugely impressed by the depth of [Hillary's] knowledge, by the force of her intellect"
• "Domestically, Mrs. Clinton has tackled complex policy issues, sometimes failing." [The Times does not cite any successes.]
• Hillary "has learned that powerful interests cannot simply be left out of the meetings" on health care.
• "Her ideas ... and her abiding, powerful intellect show she is fully capable"

Brilliant? Not really. (E.g. She doesn't know the definition of the word "congenital".)

Hillary Clinton is hard-core DLC, which is avowedly non-populist. So if she becomes president, expect to hear that globalization cannot be stopped and that the way to deal with it is to get several post-graduate degrees, in order to be more competitive with call-centers, factories, and software firms overseas that pay $3 an hour.


posted by Quiddity at 1/25/2008 02:35:00 AM